Day: January 25, 2018

This week, David Gardner cleanses his podcasting palate from last week’s Rule Breaker Investing show about his worst losers by bringing us some of his favorite quotes. In this segment, he quotes Steve Jobs, who was quoting Steward Brand and the final issue of his Whole Earth Catalog . That countercultural touchstone, unsurprisingly, has a bit in common spiritually with...
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This week, David Gardner cleanses his podcasting palate from last week’s Rule Breaker Investing show about his worst losers by bringing us some of his favorite quotes. In this segment, he offers up an incisive idea from noted economist and Harvard Business Review editor Theodore Levitt. The subject gets to the heart of how we create new things, how businesses...
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This past year was supposed to mark the beginning of Under Armour ‘s (NYSE: UAA) (NYSE: UA) turnaround. Following surprisingly weak 2016 results, CEO Kevin Plank said in late January that the company was at an “inflection point” that would allow for reduced, but positive, sales growth and just a slight decline in operating earnings in 2017. Things didn’t work...
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This week, David Gardner cleanses his podcasting palate from last week’s Rule Breaker Investing show about his worst losers by bringing us some of his favorite quotes. In this segment, he takes a page from the book of President Harry Truman, whose life and career at many points could have made him a “glass half empty” type of guy. But...
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This week, David Gardner cleanses his podcasting palate from last week’s Rule Breaker Investing show about his worst losers by bringing us some of his favorite quotes. In this segment, he quotes Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog , the early online community called The WELL, and several other notable projects. And Brand’s advice on accepting, adapting to,...
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This week, David Gardner cleanses his podcasting palate from last week’s Rule Breaker Investing show about his worst losers by bringing us some of his favorite quotes. In this segment, he quotes pioneering organizational psychologist and theorist Karl Weick, on the subjects of adaptability and why a good compass is better than a great map. A full transcript follows the...
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We were set for another spectacular day of all-time highs on Wednesday…and then the bottom dropped out. The major indices managed to come off their lows by the closing bell, but two of them still finished in the red. We had to settle for only one new record today. The Dow advanced 0.16% (or about 41 points) to 26,252.1. That...
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Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) soared past expectations during the fourth quarter, posting extremely strong subscriber growth both in the U.S. and internationally. The combination of a rapidly growing subscriber base, a recent price increase, and a weaker U.S. dollar caused revenue to surge nearly 33% year over year last quarter. Management expects revenue growth to accelerate to around 40% in the...
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On this episode of the Market Foolery podcast, Chris Hill chats with Jim Mueller from Stock Advisor and Motley Fool Options and Abi Malin of Hidden Gems about the biggest news in the market today. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) lost almost $11 billion this quarter, but the market doesn’t seem too worried. Netflix ‘s (NASDAQ: NFLX) revenue and profit...
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